Comerica Bank Expands New Business and Innovation Hub in Frisco

The Star in Frisco will soon be home to Comerica Bank’s new Class A+ business and innovation hub tower, which will house approximately 300 Comerica employees. Comerica, which began construction on the project and reported assets of $86.9 billion in June this year, plans to open the hub in the fourth quarter of 2023 or the first quarter of 2024.

Comerica’s technology, product management and frontline business units will move to the new headquarters. The company’s human resources department will also set up a new learning and interview center at the hub. Executive Offices, Commercial Bank, Wealth Management, Credit and several other business units will continue to operate from the Comerica Bank Tower in downtown Dallas.

“Frisco is known for fostering an excellent environment for businesses to thrive,” said Brian Foley, president of Comerica’s Texas Markets. It helps support our vision for future growth, including our ability to build and maintain.”

The company also plans to invest in diversity. Last week, Comerica Bank launched The Dallas Small Business Diversity Fund. This is his $1 million investment from Comerica Bank targeting her two-plus-year women- and minority-owned business in Dallas County.

World’s Largest Hot Rod Association Moves Headquarters to Texas Motor Speedway

The Goodguys Rod & Custom Association, which produces some of the most attended auto shows in America, has its headquarters in Pleasanton, California on the 10th floor of Fort Worth overlooking the Texas Motor Speedway. We have moved to the new Lone Star Tower.

Goodguys hosts 15 to 22 multi-day events across the country, attracting approximately 50,000 show cars and 500,000 spectators each year. His 25th event the group has hosted at his Texas Motor speedway will take place this year. As the association continues to expand its footprint in the United States, it has moved away from his 20-year home on the West Coast to become more centrally located.

“Bittersweet,” said Goodguys COO Andrew Ebell. “Time spent in Pleasanton signified the growth of a dream born out of the Meadors family living room in the 1980s, and that period will always be part of the Goodguys legacy. As we grow into functions, we are able to operate in a more central location in the central United States, along with a nationwide member base and event series. I am proud to call it my hometown.”

The association’s first event as a TMS tenet will be the Summit Racing Lone Star Nationals, September 16-18 at Texas Motor Speedway.

La La Land Kind opens its fifth DFW coffee spot, its first drive-thru facility.

Dallas-based coffee shop chain La La Land Kind opens its fifth DFW location in Richardson tomorrow, Sept. 17.

The spot on Campbell Road near the University of Dallas will be La La Land Kind’s first drive-thru and walk-up only location and the launching point for the Drive by Kindness initiative. The plan aims to spread kindness and normalize by capitalizing on the idea that takeaway coffee orders may be the only thing you routinely interact with strangers.

Led by young CEO Francois Reihani, La La Land Kind is known for its eight-week internships. This internship provides professional and life skills training to develop young people who are about to age out of the system. Since establishing its flagship store in Lower Greenville, the brand has expanded to markets in Los Angeles and Houston, in addition to his five DFW stores.

Cotton Bowl Foundation and College Football Playoff Foundation Announce New Grants

In honor of Extra Yard for Teachers Week, which runs from Friday, September 16th through Saturday, September 24th, the Cotton Bowl Foundation and the College Football Playoff Foundation, both headquartered in Dallas, are launching education-focused organizations. provide a grant of $200,000 to These include her $50,000 grant to the University of North Texas Dallas Call Me Mister program, her $50,000 grant to Urban Teachers, and a $100,000 grant to Educate Texas.

The grant is intended to help these organizations address the nationwide teacher shortage. In Texas alone, he has 43,000 teachers quit their jobs during the 2021-2022 school year, according to the Texas Department of Education.

College Football Playoff’s Extra Yard for Teachers platform has invested more than $57 million to date to support educators. Overall, the organization has supported more than 450,000 He teachers and her 9.2 million students nationwide.

East Dallas welcomes two new Mexican concepts, including Muchacho by Omar Flores.

Todd Interests’ East Quarter development adds Dallas-based Tex-Mex restaurant Muchacho to its roster of tenants. Located on the corner of Cesar Chavez Boulevard and Jackson Street, the restaurant is scheduled to open in the third quarter of 2023.

Developed by James Beard-appointed chef Omar Flores, Muchacho in the East Quarter will be DFW’s third Tex-Mex brand location.

The area will also soon have La Neta Cochina Y Lounge at The Epic, the brand’s first location outside of Las Vegas. The concept by hospitality company 81/82 Group is scheduled to open in early 2023.